Astronomers Have Mapped Out an Enormous Structure in the Universe Called the South Pole Wall

A projection of the South Pole Wall in celestial coordinates. Image Credit: Pomarède et al, 2020.

Galaxies aren’t spread evenly throughout space. They exist in groups, clusters, and superclusters. Our own Milky Way galaxy exists in an impossibly vast structure called the Laniakea supercluster. Laniakea was defined in 2014, and it contains over 100,000 galaxies.

Now a team of astronomers have discovered another immense feature beyond Laniakea, called the South Pole Wall.

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